Johnny Awesome
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Where is the best and most likely place to find a Wii in the US/Canada?
Best Place to find a Wii
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ebay has loads of them all for too much money. Other than that its going to be pretty much regional.
scooby_dooby
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ZELLERS... by a country mile.
You're kidding. A year after launch and the Wii is still sold for more than retail on Ebay?
I wish I could send an email to myself about 18 months ago! This is comical.You're kidding. A year after launch and the Wii is still sold for more than retail on Ebay?
Anything which is supply constrained is likely available for too much money on ebay.
Congratulations, you've won the 'state the obvious award 2007'.
retail stores in about 3 months. you waited until the worst possible time of the year to ask that question.
if you're trying to get away as cheaply as possible i'd still suggest waiting, they cant be that far from a price drop. If not then stick to checking something like Amazon.com on and off daily.
I bet you're disappointed that there is no award for being the 'genius' to point out that someone has pointed out the obvious.
You'd be surprised by how many Wiis you can find in local stores on a morning when folks aren't around. Granted, it will be that much tougher now that it's the holidays, but I would check with your local Costco, Game Crazy, Target, Toys R Us, and/or Walmart and ask when they usually get shipments in. Then, I would be dedicated about calling around that time to ask about availability.
yes all those first hand accounts of people seeing them come into their retail stores weekly in bundles of a dozen or more and selling out in a matter of hours must be planted nintendo marketers trying to hype up demand! Its actually selling like garbage! Even this OP is a plant. And this one! And this one! And this one (Irony!
)! And this one!My god and thats just recently and only in our little B3D hovel! Surely the Wii must not actually be selling out, they are ALL PLANTS!
THE WII IS A LIE!!!
THE WII IS A LIE!!!
THE WII IS A LIE!!!
I dont see what is so hard to beleive about it being an extremely popular toy phenomenon which happens to be on many peoples wish lists, every holiday has them. Remember the stupid Tickle Me Elmo dolls? People literally got trampled for those damn things.
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Do you even know how ridiculous you sound? Nintendo can't just start a plant out of the blue to produce Wii's. What happens once demand finally does die down? That's right, you're million (potentially billion) of dollars plant is worthless. Nintendo is selling 450,000 Wii's a month in the US alone. That is a hell of a lot of consoles. They have no need to purposely keep consoles in shortage.
Nintendo might be holding back 100,000 units or more a month for this holiday season, but that's to be expected. They need those units to meet demand for the holidays or else they'll have many seriously pissed off customers. The Wii is a phenomenon and they're fighting incredibly hard to produce as many consoles as they possibly can. But you just can't go "Hey Boby, we need a new production plant by Tuesday" and be greeted with "I'll be right on that." Business does not work that way.
Most hardcore gamers go for places like EB and Walmart,go for lesser chains like Zellers or Sears.
Nintendo is producing 1.8 million per/month.
Another thing that seems to be happening besides the inevitable Wii on Ebay thing is that GH3 seems to be going on sale for higher prices on Ebay as well. What's going on with Nintendo's production problems of games as well? Did they not anticipate high sales of Wii GH3?
Nintendo is producing 1.8 million per/month.
Another thing that seems to be happening besides the inevitable Wii on Ebay thing is that GH3 seems to be going on sale for higher prices on Ebay as well. What's going on with Nintendo's production problems of games as well? Did they not anticipate high sales of Wii GH3?
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